Virginia Tech says it acted appropriately in alerting the campus during the 2007 shootings and disagrees with the $55,000 fines that the government has levied on the school. The fines were levied under the Clery Act.
"The university gets a chance Wednesday to begin making its case before an Education Department administrative judge, Ernest C. Canellos, in hopes of erasing a fine that isn't hefty but can leave a black mark on an institution's record," says an AP report.